Following the release of video footage showing a police officer flipping and dragging a high school girl, and as the International Association of Chiefs of Police meet and discuss the 'Ferguson effect', we SPOTLIGHT Rinku Sen to discuss policing in the US. Rinku Sen is the President and Executive Director of Race Forward: The Center for Racial Justice Innovation and the Publisher of the award-winning news site Colorlines. Race Forward brings systemic analysis and an innovative approach to complex race issues to help people take effective action toward racial equity through research, media, and practice. Media includes: Huffington Post, The Nation, MSNBC, National Public Radio, Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle Tavis Smiley Show, Diane Rehm Show, Utne Reader
Julliard School, School of American Ballet, Women's Sports Medicine Center at Hospital for Special Surgery, Nutrition Conditioni
For interviews on processed meats and their link to cancer.
To discuss the health threat of sugar, and the link between processed meat products and cancer, we FEATURE Heidi Skolnik, the former Sports Nutrition Consultant to the New York Giants football team and the School of American Ballet. She is also a nutritionist at The Women’s Sports Medicine Center at Hospital of Special Surgery. Heidi is a contributing editor to Men’s Health magazine where her column “ The Weight Loss Coach” can be read monthly. Media includes: CNN American Morning, Headline News, The Today Show, Good Morning America, The Early Show, Primetime, 20/20,Men’s Health, Self, Glamour, G.Q
As 28 senators sign a letter to the President urging him to 'issue guidance' on the Helms Amendment, we FEATURE Ellen Chesler, a Senior Fellow at the Roosevelt Institute. Most recently, Ellen was Distinguished Lecturer and Director of the Eleanor Roosevelt Initiative on Women and Public Policy at Roosevelt House, the new public policy institute of Hunter College of the City University of New York. For nearly ten years prior to that, she served as a senior fellow and program director at the Open Society Institute, the international foundation started by George Soros, where she developed and executed the foundation's multi-million dollar global investments in reproductive health and women’s rights and advised on a range of other program initiatives. Extensive media experience.
Executive Director | Infrastructure expert, civil engineer, author
NV5
For interviews on earthquake in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Following the South Asia earthquake that has devastated Pakistan's infrastructure, we FEATURE Rossana G. D'Antonio, Assistant Deputy Director for Los Angeles County Department of Public Works, the largest department of public works in the nation. She is responsible for directing the technical design of all public infrastructure facilities including highway, flood control and bridge structures. Ms. D’Antonio was selected as a geotechnical expert for the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Earthquake Investigation Team following devastating earthquakes in El Salvador. Media includes: Pasadena Now 92.3 FM, The Beat radio show, The Women's Eye, Annual Women’s Leadership Conference Series
Center for International Trade and Security (CITS)
For interviews on US breaching of China's territory in South China Sea.
As China condemns the US for sending a guided missile destroyer within the 12 mile zone of artificial islands they claim in the South China Sea, we FEATURE Seema Gahlaut, the Director of Training and Outreach at the Center for International Trade and Security (CITS), as well as an adjunct faculty member at the University of Georgia's School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA). She teaches courses on American Government & Politics, Political Economy and National Security in Southern Asia, and Politics of Trade & Security Policy at SPIA. She also coordinates the CITS Security Leadership Program. Media includes: BBC Radio (Hindi Service), VOA (Hindi and English), Bloomberg.com, NBC Universal, Center for Investigative Reporting